I rarely have many good things to say about UA-cam these days. However, it's great that it gives others the chance to see Will Shatner's full body of acting, outside of Star Trek and TJ Hooker! Thanks Ruby Pearl. BTW: As always, Sir Basil Rathbone's acting is impeccable.
AH!! You're welcome. And what I've uploaded is just the stuff that hasn't been officially released on DVD ( except one).......kinda fearful of the copyright "stuff." Basil Rathbone IS great, isn't he?
Brilliant despite the ravages of time. What an amazing opening for Shatner to have such an important role at such an early age. Highly recommend the movie version starring Terence Stamp and Robert Ryan.
Billy Budd associated Shatner with Captaincy (later of the Enterprise) and the film with Peter Ustinov of (poor) decisionmaking as leader (later as Nero in Quo Vadis). How interesting.
Too bad Peter Cushing & Andrew Morrell didn't find their way into this cast... Shatner and I shared a morning hangover moment, in +/- 1984, at the ski resort hotel I worked at. He approached in the lobby, already wearing goggles and hat [anonymity], and quipped: "I feel like you look..." ❤❤😂❤❤
Billy Budd....Well done, Bill...😊. I suppose that is a sort of English west country accent ? Struth, 1955....I was 7.... This is so interesting to see such an early performance..... It was many decades later that he stole Mr. Spock's bicycle. 💕🇬🇧🌹😊💕
Sherlock, (Basil Rathbone) played Marley, in a 'Shower of Stars Musical, Scrooge,' in 1954. Frederic March and Ray Middleton were in it. It was quite good, in case you want to look for that one. Steed was looking good, in here. 👍🏻😁
Greg LaPointe I think that your Movie was my Sister's favorite Scrooge, also. Boy, a young McNee playing Marley. I mainly remember him as John Steed. The shorter musical one I found some years ago by chance, had some comic aspects. Your version is the true Dickens, classic. It has been a very long time since I saw it. I probably need to rewatch. 👍🏻
@@ivangranger8494 I haven't seen the one with Frederic March, I'll check it out if I come across it. The 1951 version is almost a horror movie, it's got it's creepy moments. There's also a version with George C. Scott, I need to check that one out too.
Thanks for this, 🍁 Canada 🍁. 😂 And for The Shat Man. Many gifts to the world from Canada. 😂 Appreciate the unique performances of this version. Compare to the Stamp and operatic versions. This made for TV version is not as well produced and funded as the theatrically released Terrance Stamp version. But this Shatner version brings his own special charm to the role that Terrance Stamp lacks, IMHO. Both are great actors, but I like this Canadian version
RE Mark W: Just a guess, but one reason why Shatner may have been billed above Patrick MacNee is that this is a CANADIAN production and Shatner is/was Canadian. I wouldn't be surprised if MacNee would be billed above Shatner in Great Britain in a similar production and time period.
Okay, the opening credit music is the first theme of Benjamin Britten's Sea Interlude from the opera Peter Grimes. Britten, of course, wrote the opera of Billy Budd in 1951, so why didn't they use that? The curious convolutions of administration!
@@RubyPearls-Shatner-channel No, it's just very muffled. I should understand British accents, I was born here. It reminds me of our old black and white t.v. when I was a kid and things were muffled. Or maybe my hearing but I don't have trouble with other films.
@@bill-2018 SO sorry you had a problem with this one. Perhaps I've been watching SO many of these old videos that I'm used to bad videos with bad sound. HA!!
@@bill-2018 It is quite muffled but I can understand most of it. Definitely need headphones. Some of the Canadian (Americans?) actors trying to do the accents are hard to understand. Luckily they have smaller parts. UK here. That sailor at the start that gets sent up the rigging is speaking in tongues. Can't tell if they're trying to be Irish or English.
Very interesting slice of TV history there. Very unfortunate that the audio is so bad. Distant micing, reverberent studio, overly loud SFX ... weren't they listening in the control room?! I think it's an optical track from a kinescope, too, which doesn't help. I can clean up the hum and noise, but much of the dialog is still indecipherable. In a few years we'll be able to get AI to revoice it and get rid of the damned creaking rope.
@@GS250Premiun That's an electronic noise they're referring to, I think - the loud static mixed with whining that drowns out the voices. Doesn't help that the voices aren't in the best quality either, and that it only comes in through one headphone... I wonder if there's a way to fix this to make it a bit more understandable. I tried running it through basic noise suppression and volume increase but it gets rid of all the music and a lot of other aspects (and some of the voices are still pretty hard to make out).
What genius to covey the hanging through Rathbone’s reaction, his face becoming that of an innocent child. Masterful.
Shatner starts his career as an ordinary seaman in 1798, ends up as an Admiral in 2285
That’s a damn good run.
And goes into space in 2021
😍
Hahaha😂
This kind of TV theatre shows just how good these actors were.
16:24 "He can't see there's Evil in the World, and you won't see the Good."
❤❤🎉❤❤
Beautiful
I rarely have many good things to say about UA-cam these days. However, it's great that it gives others the chance to see Will Shatner's full body of acting, outside of Star Trek and TJ Hooker! Thanks Ruby Pearl. BTW: As always, Sir Basil Rathbone's acting is impeccable.
AH!! You're welcome. And what I've uploaded is just the stuff that hasn't been officially released on DVD ( except one).......kinda fearful of the copyright "stuff." Basil Rathbone IS great, isn't he?
Thank you for posting these!
Brilliant despite the ravages of time.
What an amazing opening for Shatner to have such an important role at such an early age.
Highly recommend the movie version starring Terence Stamp and Robert Ryan.
Thanks for posting these!!! Having good times watching them!
@Kaison Allan awesome thanks for the tip!
Thanks for this. I'll watch just about any thing with Basil Rathbone in. William Shatner is a bonus!
Billy Budd associated Shatner with Captaincy (later of the Enterprise) and the film with Peter Ustinov of (poor) decisionmaking as leader (later as Nero in Quo Vadis). How interesting.
Too bad Peter Cushing & Andrew Morrell didn't find their way into this cast...
Shatner and I shared a morning hangover moment, in +/- 1984, at the ski resort hotel I worked at. He approached in the lobby, already wearing goggles and hat [anonymity], and quipped:
"I feel like you look..." ❤❤😂❤❤
Billy Budd....Well done, Bill...😊.
I suppose that is a sort of English west country accent ?
Struth, 1955....I was 7....
This is so interesting to see such an early performance.....
It was many decades later that he stole Mr. Spock's bicycle.
💕🇬🇧🌹😊💕
Thank you! 💐
Shatner’s probably the only one of these actors still alive.
More than likely. Patrick MacNee had a good run also, but he passed in 2015.
Yes indeed. Cap'n Kirk just turned 90.
This was from the '50s. In 2021, most movie stars from that time have passed on.
Basil Rathbone passed away 21 July 1967 (age 75).
I realize it is pretty randomly asking but does anyone know of a good place to watch newly released series online?
Sherlock Holmes, Captain Kirk, and Major John Steed together!
Sherlock, (Basil Rathbone) played Marley, in a 'Shower of Stars Musical, Scrooge,' in 1954. Frederic March and Ray Middleton were in it. It was quite good, in case you want to look for that one. Steed was looking good, in here. 👍🏻😁
@@ivangranger8494 Patrick Macnee played Jacob Marley in my favorite version of A Christmas Carol, from 1951 starring Allistair Sim.
Greg LaPointe I think that your Movie was my Sister's favorite Scrooge, also. Boy, a young McNee playing Marley. I mainly remember him as John Steed.
The shorter musical one I found some years ago by chance, had some comic aspects. Your version is the true Dickens, classic. It has been a very long time since I saw it. I probably need to rewatch. 👍🏻
@@ivangranger8494 I haven't seen the one with Frederic March, I'll check it out if I come across it. The 1951 version is almost a horror movie, it's got it's creepy moments. There's also a version with George C. Scott, I need to check that one out too.
@@greglapointe1311 Yes - but to be clear he played young Jacob Marley - the older Marley & his ghost were played by Michael Hordern
Classic! Enhanced by the car adverts...
Can't seem to find the Terence Stamp full film here... Any ideas please?
No idea if you can't find it here on you tube.
Nobody is playing Dansker, the sailmaker?
This was a sad story. Bill did great! Thank you Ruby.
Thanks for this, 🍁 Canada 🍁.
😂 And for The Shat Man. Many gifts to the world from Canada. 😂
Appreciate the unique performances of this version.
Compare to the Stamp and operatic versions.
This made for TV version is not as well produced and funded as the theatrically released Terrance Stamp version.
But this Shatner version brings his own special charm to the role that Terrance Stamp lacks, IMHO. Both are great actors, but I like this Canadian version
You actually found the whole movie!! Impressive. Shatner, is so innocent in this piece.
Of course. He was still 🍁 Canadian 🍁. He had not yet been corrupted by America 🇺🇸 nor Hollywood into the egotistical attention hound of decades later.
Holy ? William Shatner is 2nd only to Basil Rathbone in the credits, even ahead of Patrick McNee!
Love the old GM ads
RE Mark W:
Just a guess, but one reason why Shatner may have been billed above Patrick MacNee is that this is a CANADIAN production and Shatner is/was Canadian. I wouldn't be surprised if MacNee would be billed above Shatner in Great Britain in a similar production and time period.
The version with Terrence stamp is also very good
i waited years for someone to post this...I wound up buying a copy from Kino. Love when Rathbone accidentally steps in a bucket.
Okay, the opening credit music is the first theme of Benjamin Britten's Sea Interlude from the opera Peter Grimes. Britten, of course, wrote the opera of Billy Budd in 1951, so why didn't they use that? The curious convolutions of administration!
Perhaps Britten didn't think Shatner was pretty enough?
53:24 I believe that is Patrick McNee.
Yep. : )
Sherlock Holmes, CPT James T Kirk and John Steed all in one go
A pity ther audio is so bad. I'm guessing half the time what they are saying. It's clearer listening on headphones.
Sorry...I checked it before I posted it & thought the audio was OK . British accents, perhaps!
@@RubyPearls-Shatner-channel No, it's just very muffled. I should understand British accents, I was born here. It reminds me of our old black and white t.v. when I was a kid and things were muffled. Or maybe my hearing but I don't have trouble with other films.
@@bill-2018 SO sorry you had a problem with this one. Perhaps I've been watching SO many of these old videos that I'm used to bad videos with bad sound. HA!!
@@bill-2018 It is quite muffled but I can understand most of it. Definitely need headphones. Some of the Canadian (Americans?) actors trying to do the accents are hard to understand. Luckily they have smaller parts. UK here. That sailor at the start that gets sent up the rigging is speaking in tongues. Can't tell if they're trying to be Irish or English.
use the captions.
Very sad story.
Not quite Terence Stamp but quite good. The Melville short story and the 1962 movie were absolutely wonderful. Robert Ryan was so evil !
Whatever happened to Douglas Cambell?
So interesting!
Idk if i can imagine the Shat as Billy Budd! meh I’ll give it a chance…
Dang this looks like it was made in 1865 lol.
Young Bill did a good job in this role.
The blond dye job doesn't a thing for Captain Kirk.
He looks like a young baby bud.
Bleached not dyed
agreed
Very interesting slice of TV history there. Very unfortunate that the audio is so bad. Distant micing, reverberent studio, overly loud SFX ... weren't they listening in the control room?! I think it's an optical track from a kinescope, too, which doesn't help. I can clean up the hum and noise, but much of the dialog is still indecipherable. In a few years we'll be able to get AI to revoice it and get rid of the damned creaking rope.
This was all Shatner's REAL hair -- no hairweaves or toupees, albeit it the hair was bleached!
definitely not a good look
And John Steed
The sound is hard to follow. The overriding sound is the “creaking” which drowns out everything… Shatner is 24 years old here - at best.
It's a wooden ship, it's supposed to sound "creaky".
@@GS250Premiun That's an electronic noise they're referring to, I think - the loud static mixed with whining that drowns out the voices. Doesn't help that the voices aren't in the best quality either, and that it only comes in through one headphone... I wonder if there's a way to fix this to make it a bit more understandable. I tried running it through basic noise suppression and volume increase but it gets rid of all the music and a lot of other aspects (and some of the voices are still pretty hard to make out).
Harsh. Perhaps even accurate.
Bill definitely doesn't suit blonde. bit of Kirkfu in there.
Shatner was never good at putting on accents.
You obviously haven't heard him in other roles.